Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.